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Brief Report: Odour Awareness in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
The elucidation of odour awareness in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is important. We compared the odour awareness of young children with ASD with those of typical development (TD) children usin...
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Brief Report: Olfactory Adaptation in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Olfactory adaptation is an important process that allows the individual to adjust to changes in the environment. This process has been proposed to be aberrant in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD...
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Brief Report: A Novel System to Evaluate Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Two Humanoid Robots
We investigated the feasibility of our novel evaluation system for use with children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). We prepared the experimental setting with two humanoid robots in reference to the birt...
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Open AccessBrief Report: Evaluating the Utility of Varied Technological Agents to Elicit Social Attention from Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Technological agents could be effective tools to be used in interventions for enhancing social orienting for some young children with ASD. We examined response to social bids in preschool children with ASD and...
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Relationship Between Odor Identification and Visual Distractors in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Understanding the nature of olfactory abnormalities is crucial for optimal interventions in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). However, previous studies that have investigated odor identification i...
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Impressions of Humanness for Android Robot may Represent an Endophenotype for Autism Spectrum Disorders
Identification of meaningful endophenotypes may be critical to unraveling the etiology and pathophysiology of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). We investigated whether impressions of “humanness” for android rob...
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Quantitative Aspects of Communicative Impairment Ascertained in a Large National Survey of Japanese Children
The Japanese version of the Children’s Communication Checklist-2 (CCC-2) was rated by caregivers in a large national population sample of 22,871 children aged 3–15 years. The General Communication Composite (G...